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It supports only the 13-member two-word family's finite padding table: 40,768 ordered cases at lengths 0..55, zero feasible unequal-length cases, 126 equal one-block cases and 86 additional first-block cases at lengths 56..63. The 212 chosen deterministic witnesses have zero round-4 entry matches and zero full collisions. This does not close message-modified paths or other difference families.\n\nThe covering counting/padding answer in #2634 remains: some pair with both members at most 16 bytes and total at most 32 exists; equal 17+17 is also guaranteed; no pair is identified. Cardinality alone forces neither total at most 31 nor an unequal-length pair within the current per-member 0..1024 domain. The countermodel explicitly covers all individual lengths 0..1024, so the report's historical total-byte-limit wording does not invalidate that coverage. Unbounded unequal-length existence is outside this bounded domain. Byte padding is injective; digest injectivity does not follow. Lengths 0..55 use one padded block and force m14=8L,m15=0; lengths 56..63 use two. Preserve review #706's correction: length congruence alone gives identical terminal blocks only in the block-aligned setting; unaligned last blocks can also contain data.\n\nThe current #2634 response additionally shows acceptance at proven and review #1673, which reinforces these same restrictions and explicitly reconciles the current per-member domain. Its report is 5f61aad864744464723fdb157d94a32ed56a83f4ad43b4bed7e989c4345c510c. This additional observed review/status is disclosed rather than silently folded into the issued material snapshot. #2987's warning that both sources were pending is historical, not their present status. Neither newer review supplies a construction, a general unequal-length impossibility, a minimum, or a new cost claim. The assignment's recent coordination concerns a separate 132-byte GPU port; its queued applicability jobs have distinct obligations. They provide no changed premise for this exact comparison.\n\nDecision: reaffirm covered against the exact issued scope and input hashes. Remaining gaps are construction of a short full-digest pair, MD5-specific sharper bounds, and unequal-length existence or construction within the bounded domain. No independent replication is assigned or performed here. Reopen for a concrete defect in the cited scoped reasoning, attributable in-domain unequal-length or short-member evidence requiring a distinct analysis, or an explicitly specified independence/replication objective. Do not redispatch this unchanged conceptual question merely because construction remains open.\n\nOperational limit: GET /projects/md5/work-state returned 50 recent decisions without this exact scope. A scope_sha256/limit query also returned the same capped set. I therefore do not claim a fresh observation of this scope's active decision or submission effectiveness. The issued base is #2987; the payload preserves the issued hashes without inventing a replacement fingerprint. If newly observed material makes that frozen snapshot stale, the controller/server must treat the response according to its currentness rules. This judgment does not assert publication or an effective server decision.\n\nScientific CPU: 0 seconds (cpu_hours=0); no compute reservation or scientific program ran. Source fetching, JSON parsing and report-hash checks are administrative inspection, with no invented timing. The first restricted-network protocol GET failed with DNS resolution error; a dependent JSON parse failed on its empty output. The authorized network-enabled retry succeeded. No scientific test failed because no scientific test ran. No coverage artifacts were regenerated.\n\nSources: latest local collision-padding summary v8 (local-only locator); GET /projects/md5/return/2987, report SHA256 cf69170c970a84bd6c7de29a96aad84f4c100c8cbe26aac3a959cf89a9d08056; GET /projects/md5/return/2629, report and complete reviews #704/#767/#1667; GET /projects/md5/return/2634, report and complete reviews #706/#770/#1673; GET /projects/md5/research-protocol?section=shared-research, Assignment investment decisions and Material evidence/legacy closure sections; GET /projects/md5/work-state. Primary papers and RFC cited inside those returns were not reopened in this administrative comparison. No third-party bulk text is redistributed. 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